Friday, July 19, 2013

July: Book-Haul and 2013 Reading Challenge

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I've been extremely busy lately, and my semester holiday doesn't feel like holiday at all. Work is definitely time-consuming; and even though I couldn't read as much books as last year, I always spare some time to read and write reviews. But because of difficulty in time management, I am slightly changing the amount of books I'm going to read for Goodreads 2013 Reading Challenge. At first I set the numbers to 100, but lately I felt like it's chasing me (like a deadline) because I'm always 1 book behind - or at least on track. Now I'm changing it to 85, so I can read in a more relaxed way and read more English books (which always took me a long time to finish). Hopefully I can still keep up with that number :(

I recently finished my internship session, but next week I'm starting my 7th semester in uni - which I'm dreading because I'm coming so much closer to writing thesis! In the midst of all that, I've decided to take some language courses - including Korean class and also English class. It's been too long since I wanted to learn Korean, and finally I've found a place to do it properly (instead of learning it online like I'm doing now). As for the English class, I wanted to take General English class or English for Business - which I think would be useful in the future. Amidst all that, I still have to manage my time to watch Korean variety shows and K-dramas (I know, it's doesn't sound important; but it's my joy in life aside from books!). Even so, I'm still planning to keep reading books and writing reviews on this blog. I just hope I can manage my time properly and try to not sleep late every single day.

Enough small talk, now I'm going to share my book-haul for this month! The book-haul I'm going to share this time are books I've got from June to mid-July. I'm really happy with the book I got sponsored by Penerbit Haru - which includes one of my favorite authors: Orizuka. And I'm actually pretty sad because I didn't get chosen for GagasMedia's Unforgotten event - which means I didn't get 10 free books ;___;. But even after the announcement, I still order three GagasMedia books for myself because Christian Simamora and Sefryana Khairil released new books! They are my favorite authors as well :) I also got myself the Indonesian version of 1Q84, and the last book for Negeri 5 Menari trilogy - which I'm probably going to read soon. I'm planning to restrain myself from buying books for some time - I really hope I can keep my words. *cross fingers*. Book titles and goodreads links available down below after the picture :)

So that's the list! I hope I can finish most of them soon :) I'm going back into my uni-routine, so wish me luck on that. I hope everything goes well because I'm starting my thesis. I will work hard and try to do my best, because like John Green said: "The world is not a wish-granting factory" :)). I hope everyone also had a great month this July, and hope you read lots too ;)

Followers

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”― Stephen King